⚽️ Broken Beyond Excuse
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There’s no uncertainty about Liverpool anymore, they have collapsed in full public view.
Aston Villa won 4-2, but anyone who watched that shambles knows the scoreline flattered Liverpool. Villa cut through them at will. Every attack looked dangerous, every set piece looked fatal, every moment without the ball looked like panic waiting to happen. This wasn’t a contest. It was a demolition carried out against a side that has completely lost its identity.
The excuses have run dry. Injuries in attack, fine. But that defence contained senior internationals, the midfield was the same midfield that carried Liverpool to a title, and yet they played with all the structure of strangers meeting in a car park.
12 league defeats. 20 goals conceded from set pieces. 7 away wins all season. The second lowest away tally in over a decade. These are not blips. They are evidence.
Arne Slot looks broken by the scale of the job. Worse than that, he looks incapable of fixing it, regardless of his public protestations. There is no tactical coherence, no intensity, no resilience, no visible plan. Every press conference feels like another exercise in deflection while supporters are asked to ignore what their own eyes are watching every week.
The players deserve criticism, plenty of it, but managers survive bad form by offering solutions. Liverpool’s manager offers none.
Richard Hughes should have acted months ago. FSG should never have allowed this decay to continue unchecked. Instead, Liverpool head into the final game of the season still scrambling for Champions League qualification after entering the season expecting to run away with the league. F**k ‘transition season’ right in the bin, nobody even uttered those words until the wheels fell off.
One more game and this nightmare finally ends. It’s time John, in fact it’s way past time.